How do viral and host factors modulate the sexual transmission of HIV? Can transmission be blocked?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 0181-0185

  Gupta, Kalpana ^a   Klasse, Per Johan ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MICROBICIDE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VACCINE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HERD IMMUNITY; HISTOLOGY; HOST; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUCOSA; PROTECTION; RECTUM; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; VAGINA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

AIDS VACCINES; ANTIBODY FORMATION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MALE; RECTUM; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VAGINA; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 33644841528     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030079     Document Type: Article

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